Favicon Generator <= 1.5 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Arbitrary File Deletion

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE CVE-2024-7568
CVSS Critical (9.6)
Publicly Published August 23, 2024
Last Updated August 27, 2024
Researcher Marco Wotschka
Description

The Favicon Generator plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 1.5. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the output_sub_admin_page_0 function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete arbitrary files on the server via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link. The plugin author deleted the functionality of the plugin to patch this issue and close the plugin, we recommend seeking an alternative to this plugin. CVE-2024-7864 appears to be a duplicate of this issue.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug favicon-generator (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.5
Patched Version
  • 2.1
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